If you had a previous version of Final Draft on the computer, it's possible that the operating system is not allowing the installer to overwrite a locked copy of the Courier Final Draft font that's already there. Go to Macintosh HD > Library > Fonts to see if the Courier Final Draft font is ...

Macintosh Open Macintosh HD > Library > Fonts and Control+click on Courier Final Draft, then choose Get Info. If it is something other than Version 3.5x, you'll need to update the font. Drag this font to the Trash and empty the Trash. NOTE: You must delete the font this way before you copy ...

If you’ve updated to iOS 6, your italic (Courier Final Draft) text may not look the way it should. If you have any italic text in your script, it may appear as bold italic. If italic is combined with any other style (bold, underline, ALL CAPS), your Courier Final Draft text may appear to be r...

The WRONG way: Highlight your entire script; Go to Format > Font and choose another font. If you do it this way, only the selected text will be changed and all typing you do after this point will still be in the old font. The RIGHT way: Go to Format > Elements (in FD10 / 9 for Wind...

If you need to change any of the attributes of any of the elements that comprise a script, go to Format > Elements (Format > Element Settings in FD10 / 9 for Windows). Here you will find controls and settings for each element (Scene Heading, Character Name, Dialogue, etc.). Settings for keyb...

Final Draft 7 is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra), 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or 10. 7 (Lion). It is supported on 10.4.11 - 10.6.8. NOTE: All support for Final Draft 7, including software activation, has been discontinued. You may find s...

Whether you have pasted a foreign-language character into Final Draft or have switched to a foreign-language font set, Final Draft will most likely not be able to display it properly. Most foreign fonts are Unicode or multi-byte character fonts, but Final Draft software can only use TrueType singl...

Final Draft 7 is not supported on Mac OS X 10.12 (Sierra), 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or 10.7 (Lion), it's too old. If you need to run Final Draft on a computer with one of these operating systems, you will want to upgrade to FD10, which is compatib...